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05-26-2007
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| | VISTA In general, I'm about ready to format my new computer's hard drive and install XP Professional and just get rid of Vista. I'm a mobile professional and can't afford to buy two of everything I need on my desktop and laptop. It's unclear to me if Microsoft has "helped" the computing world beyond making things so secure as to be nearly unuseable. -- Riskman |
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05-26-2007
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| Windows Vista™ Ultimate | Vista does have many bugs and you are able to remove/disable things you do not like, if it really concerns you just install XP untill SP1 for vista comes out with the majority of bugs fixed and made more stable. |
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05-26-2007
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| | Re: VISTA "riskman" <riskman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1E607312-1A00-4344-93D9-6C7D5B8949E3@microsoft.com... > In general, I'm about ready to format my new computer's hard drive and > install XP Professional and just get rid of Vista. I'm a mobile > professional > and can't afford to buy two of everything I need on my desktop and laptop. > It's unclear to me if Microsoft has "helped" the computing world beyond > making things so secure as to be nearly unuseable. > -- > Riskman I don't understand what you mean by "buy two of everything" With most software the license is for one computer. If you have two computers you need two copies. How does Vista change this? -- Kerry Brown Microsoft MVP - Shell/User http://www.vistahelp.ca |
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05-26-2007
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| | Re: VISTA "can't afford to buy two of everything" A great many can't. But how does this relate to Windows Vista? Most hardware and software designed for Windows Vista works with Windows Vista. If you have specific problems, start a new thread in an appropriate newsgroup and someone will probably be able to give a solution. -- Jupiter Jones [MVP] http://www3.telus.net/dandemar http://www.dts-l.org "riskman" <riskman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1E607312-1A00-4344-93D9-6C7D5B8949E3@microsoft.com... > In general, I'm about ready to format my new computer's hard drive > and > install XP Professional and just get rid of Vista. I'm a mobile > professional > and can't afford to buy two of everything I need on my desktop and > laptop. > It's unclear to me if Microsoft has "helped" the computing world > beyond > making things so secure as to be nearly unuseable. > -- > Riskman |
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05-27-2007
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| | Re: VISTA "riskman" <riskman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1E607312-1A00-4344-93D9-6C7D5B8949E3@microsoft.com... > In general, I'm about ready to format my new computer's hard drive and > install XP Professional and just get rid of Vista. That surely makes sense. While I'm gritting my teeth and pushing on with Vista at home, I've recently re-installed XP Pro at work. > I'm a mobile professional > and can't afford to buy two of everything I need on my desktop and laptop. But I don't see how you get here from your previous statement. It makes no sense. Windows' licences, agree with them or not, are much the same in this regard for both the versions of Windows that you mention. And using Vista makes no changes to your licence terms for Microsoft Office, say, and most certainly not to non-Microsoft software. |
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